Counseling Groups
Groups provide an opportunity to work through a variety of concerns within a person’s life while receiving support, gaining insight, learning and practicing new behaviors, and increasing self-esteem. In group therapy, you have the
opportunity to:
- Increase your self-awareness and focus energy into aspects of your life you wish to change.
- Try out new behaviors and experiment with new ideas.
- Express feelings you are hesitant to express and assert yourself in new ways.
- Learn from other group members (and group facilitators) by getting feedback and finding out how others perceive you.
All groups are free to students who have paid student fees.
Current Groups
Interested students should call (402) 472-7450 to notify CAPS of their interest in participating. Students must schedule an Initial Evaluation or be a current CAPS patient to participate in ongoing CAPS group sessions.
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All Gender Graduate Therapy Group
Group facilitator: Kristin Jagels, MA & Rachael Perlman, MA
This group is intended for graduate-level students and designed to address issues related to being in graduate school as well as how that may impact mental health and relationships.
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All Gender Undergraduate Therapy Group
Group facilitator: Soowhan Choi, PhD and Michele Wilson, MSEd
Participate in a group with other undergrad students to gain ideas and suggestions that can help you to develop self-awareness and insight on issues impacting you and others in the group. This group provides a space to process
various concerns in a safe, open, and supportive setting with peers.
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Food & Mood Therapy Group
Group facilitator: Jenifer Manstedt, LIMHP & Evelyn Cowen, MA
A support group for students seeking support around disordered eating and body image concerns.
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Graduate Women of Color Therapy Group
Group facilitators: Falesa Ivory, PhD & Summer Bleich, MA
Being a woman of color and a graduate student can present a unique set of challenges. This processing group aims to provide a safe, secure, and supportive environment in which women can share and process their concerns and
experiences with each other.
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Graduate Women Therapy Group
Group facilitators: Kylie Surmeier, MS & Mariah Johnson, MS
This group provides a space for women in graduate studies to process the stressors of graduate school in a safe, open, and supportive setting with peers. Develop insight, interpersonal skills, and self-awareness with other women
graduate students in this weekly group to discuss issues and life events.
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International Student Support Group
Group facilitator: Xiping (Kylie) Qiu, MS
Come and join a CAPS therapist to talk with other international students at UNL in a group with respect of confidentiality and nonjudgmental space.
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Undergraduate BIPOC Therapy Group
Group facilitators: Falesa Ivory, PhD & Soowhan Choi, PhD
This group is designed for undergraduate students of color to offer and receive support from peers as they develop self-awareness and insight on issues such as academics, imposter syndrome, micro-aggressions, isolation, loneliness,
adjustment to college, and more.
Students also can join free online groups for college students and early adults each Thursday hosted by the Pathlight Mood & Anxiety
Center, a national resource offering mental health support.
